ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how the resemblance between architecture, body, and mind can lead a person to experience themselves as somehow embodied within the material fabric of a building. For the architectural blueprints of psyche include features of both traditions and combine them into a single image. Josef Breuer's analogy suggests a simple two-storey house of psyche, with consciousness presented as the well-lit upper storey, presumably including a number of rooms to accommodate its various ideas, and the unconscious, by contrast, as dark rooms situated in the basement. The most iconic of Gustav Jung's architectural descriptions is an account of a dream he claims to have had in 1909, when travelling with Freud to Massachusetts. Given that Jung's general conception of the psyche as a divisible and divided whole is similar to that of Sigmund Freud and Breuer, it is not surprising that the general structure of his architectural blueprints of psyche is also like theirs.
